Tennis instruction: In tennis the smart use of the court leads to stunning results.

Roger Federer with this delicate dink backhand slice brings Thomas Berdych to the net (where Berdych does not want to be!) and since the angle is pretty sharp puts Berdych also out of the court and out of play.

Shots like this make me smile because a few decades ago there was a giant of a man called Pancho Gonzales who once said:

My legs, retrieving, lobs and change-of-pace service returns meant as much or more to me than my power," he once said, "but people overlooked that because of the reputation of my serve.

Yes, and Pancho Gonzales was a master of the dink shot as well! 1949-1970's

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